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or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed. -- For"ced*ly, adv. -- For"ced*ness, n.

r, by wading; to wade through. His last section, which is no deep one, remains only to be forted. Milton.

To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a so…

Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

Deserted abandoned; lost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

or deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper. Pope.

e as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak. It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. vii. 25.

The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.

Fortified with a fraise.

To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. I. Taylor. What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed Spenser.

rong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour. -- Fresh gale, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour. -- Fresh way (Naut.), increased speed.

To impair; to wear away; to diminish. By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. Shak.

To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. Spenser.

narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv. Sudden partings s…

r, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. -- Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. -- Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. Farrow.…

Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune. "Frugal fare." Dryden.

To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.